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Quote by Martin Esslin
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. – Martin Esslin

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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